Happy Birthday to Me

I am officially the most boring 24-year-old ever!

Today is not only my birthday, but in a cruel twist of fate, it is also my first day of new teacher orientation. Don't get me wrong, I am pumped for teaching but not HR sessions ALL.DAY.LONG.

Plus, I can't even go out for a birthday dinner because I have to head straight to yearbook distribution. I'm excited to see my yearbook editors but not for the 14+ hour day.

So happy birthday to me! What a birthday it will be.

Ohhhh Michael Cera!

Now you may not remember this, but I love me some Michael Cera. I even put up with the mildly offensive plot and annoying Jonah what's-his-name in Superbad just to catch a little bit of the sorta awkwardness that Michael Cera brings to whatever he is in. Arrested Development, Juno, Superbad, etc.

Now they've released a longer trailer for Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist--it's Michael Cera and the principal's daughter from Charlie Bartlett. The movie itself looks kinda cute but you know I'll be there with my I <3 Michael Cera shirt on!***

***No, I do not actually own such a shirt. I'm not that much of a creeper.

Watch the trailer:

Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

Pumped about Pushing Daisies

October 1--New Pushing Daisies, Dirty Sexy Money and (not as exciting) Private Practice!

Wonderful Wednesday on ABC will be back and I can't wait--Daisies and Money have been gone since before the writers strike... at least October will be here before I know it.

Check out the teaser:

Dubya Trailer

Here's a trailer for Oliver Stone's biopic about the current pres, W. (Only 175 days left until the "end of an error!") Looks interesting-- have they ever done a presidential movie while the president was still in office? Seems strange...

W. Teaser Trailer
by iliketolookatmyranch

Spell Check

Nice work, NBC Action News. Or was it AP? "Who's" fault was it?:

Woman who's car went into river dies

Last Update: 11:56 am

ST. LOUIS (AP) - A woman's whose vehicle went into the Meramec River has died, a day after her grandson also died.

Sandra Branham, 63, of Crestwood, died Saturday at St. John's Mercy Medical Center in Creve Coeur, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported on its Web site.

And so on...

Who's vs. Whose
Don't we learn the different in elementary school?

You'd think the headline writer could get it right since it's correct in the first sentence of the article. Guess NOT!

Media Addiction Wordle

Make your own at wordle.net

I Noticed That, Too!

I totally saw THIS when watching Project Runway. Bravo should maybe focus less on making as many shows as possible from the Real Housewives of the OC and more on math skills.

TV Catch Up

I was at yearbook camp this week, so I missed a bunch of shows. Thanks to my beloved DVR, I'm catching up tonight as I unwind and relax after camp.

Here's what I've been watching:

1. Project Runway, episode 2
I actually liked the first episode better than this one--but there were definitely some great twists that made it an exciting challenge. The green thing was kind of downplayed which was weird to me, but I loved that the dumb models went shopping and--hello!--Natalie Portman as the surprise guests judge? So perfect! She is totally adorable and I want to be her friend. Ha. I liked Suede's winning dress (but NOT Suede's third person rants) and I loved Blayne's mockery of Stella's leather obsession. "My husband is leather..." Hilarious. I'm just not convinced this cast is all that talented.

2. Baby Borrowers, teen invasion episode
OMG Daton left! He was totally stupid anyway, running off to the skate park and leaving Morgan to do the work. Not that she is a complete prize, but he is crap. The teens weren't nearly as crazy as the teaser and commercials made it look like they would be, and the parents handled them fairly well. I just felt horrible for the kids whose real-life parents were going through divorces having to sit through a teenage break-up and fighting. Ugh. Next week--the elderly!

3. Mad Men (multiple episodes)
I taped all 13 episodes from last Sunday's season one marathon and am making my way through them before Sunday's season two premiere. This show is just as good as the critics say--I love it. The costumes and settings are a-may-zing and I love the music they throw in, too... everything seems super authentic. Plus I love all the tongue-in-cheek remarks and the whole advertising premise. If you haven't yet, go watch this show! I still have five more episodes to watch this weekend!

Still to catch up on: America's Got Talent and the season premiere of How to Look Good Naked with Carson Kressley.

Vampires Rule Comic-Con

Apparently fans of the book series waiting in anticipation for the movie have whipped Comic-Con into a Twilight frenzy.

Read VH1's report on the cast's Comic-Con panel

I can't even imagine 6,000 teenagers (and probably a bunch of weird adults like me who like the books) screaming and/or declaring allegiance to Team Edward or Team Jacob.***

Author Stephenie Meyer also sat down for an exclusive video interview at Comic-Con with Entertainment Weekly. Here's a link to the first clip--click here for the other 3 parts of the interview, including information about Breaking Dawn--out one week from Saturday!

Stephenie Meyer EW.Com interview

***I, by the way, am totally on Team Edward. A beautiful vampire or a hairy werewolf? No contest.

It's About Damn Time

CNN and many others are reporting that the price of gas is finally coming down (at least a little bit).

It's nice to see a gallon under $4 again.***

What took so long? Let's hope those prices keep going down and stay down.

***What a depressing statement. I remember being totally appalled when it went over $2!

Comic Sans to the Rescue!

This video* made me laugh out loud. Maybe just because I am a font geek.

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

*I have no idea why it is so wide/big. Deal with it.

Figures

Just as everyone predicted, Batman kicked Spidey's ass at the box office. The Dark Knight beat Spiderman 3's opening weekend record, bringing in more than $155 million.

WHOA. That's a whole lotta Batman.

Read all about the weekend box office results here

UPDATE:
The records keep on breaking-- the movie made $25.4 million TODAY. That's a Monday. Yeah.

I am The Batman

It took me until Sunday night, but I finally saw The Dark Knight this weekend.

Really, there's not much to say other than WOW.

It was an excellent movie--great storyline, great action, great visuals, great stunts, great cast.

As everyone and their brother has reported, Heath Ledger was pretty darn amazing as The Joker. I may have nightmares about that makeup tonight.

And OH. MY. GOD. Christian Bale is SO ATTRACTIVE. We're talking beautiful, gorgeous, flawless in those super expensive suits and hot cars. Siiiiigh.

If you haven't seen it yet (although I'm thinking with what they are predicting to be record-setting box office sales, everyone must have already seen it), run and do so NOW. I guarantee it's playing about every 45 seconds at your local theater.

Feel The Beat from the Tambourine

I may or may not have seen Mamma Mia two times this weekend. No joke.

It was THAT GOOD.

I saw the musical at Mandalay Bay in Vegas years ago and while it was fun, I don't remember enjoying it that much. Totally not the case for this movie.

Meryl Streep is beyond awesome. She really can do no wrong in my book and this is no exception. Amanda Seyfried has a great voice and is super cute as Sophie and OH. MY. GOD. Colin Firth is adorable. When he sings "Our Last Summer" I couldn't stop smiling and again, OH. MY. GOD. Him in the stretchy disco outfit at the end was hysterical.

Love Love LOVED it.

...Even if Pierce Brosnan can't sing to save his life.

Read some other reviews if that was too gushy:
Salon
VH1 (Kurt Loder)
BuzzSugar

Twilight Trailer

Okay I'm not sure what I think about this but here it is, a longer trailer for Twilight:



I have a feeling this movie will not be what I imagined--from the trailer it looks awfully action vampire-y rather than the love story I enjoyed so much.

Either way, like I've said before, I'll be there on 12.12.08 to see it. I should probably stop trying to pretend I'll be anything but ridiculously excited alongside all those teenyboppers.

Only two more weeks until Breaking Dawn!

Here I Go Again...

DID I MENTION TOMORROW IS AN AMAZING DAY?

Mamma Mia and The Dark Knight are finally here.

Being a total musical geek I will be seeing Mamma Mia tomorrow afternoon and Batman sometime later this weekend. I'm sure most people would do the opposite, but guess what? I'm not normal.

I. Love. Musicals.

Back on the Runway

Project Runway Season 5 debuted on Bravo last night. I feel like the last season just ended, but all the same, I am excited for another season of crazy challenges, bizarre drama and making it work.

God I love Tim Gunn. He totally blew one of the guys a kiss when they got up to the rooftop! Adorable. And is it just me or is he getting a little more brutally honest? I love it.

The season premiere went back to basics--the very first Project Runway challenge: a grocery store--complete with the glamorous and hilarious Austin Scarlett himself. No, there wasn't an amazing corn husk dress, but Daniel did make a very cool blue plastic dress out of Solo cups and Kelly took vacuum cleaner bags to a whole new dimension. I also loved how Korto (I had to look up her name... oops) actually used produce--that collar made of kale and tomatoes was gorgeous. I honestly thought that the girl with the trash bag dress was way worse than the guy with the raincoat deal. At least he made a whole raincoat--she gave up before the day was halfway over and just threw that stupid drapey stuff together at the last minute. Lame.

My favorite look (second place--he was robbed)

Anyway overall it was a fun premiere with a major lack of drama. I'm sure it will surface very quickly--there seems to be a lot of personality in the workroom just waiting to come out.

Plus who can argue with actual quality summer TV?

POST 300: 3 Fun Things

1. Weeds
This week's episode was pretty great, actually. Back to the old quick-witted humor, bizarre antics and hysterical family interactions. I thought Celia returning was going to be stupid, but she totally fits into the motley Botwin crew. I love that Nancy has to work retail at an outlet mall on the border and that she finally apologized to and/or thanked everyone in her family--AND that she actually admitted she was a terrible drug dealer. I hope this seasons continues to get better and better!

2. Wanted
I went to see this movie with my sister and her friend over the weekend--mainly because I had already seen every other movie I was remotely interested in seeing and because Wanted featured Chicago. I was in Chicago, so it made sense even though honestly I had no idea what the movie was about. Turns out, it was super violent, pretty insane plot-wise, kinda goofy at times... but also very entertaining and full of fantastic special effects. Things I didn't like: The stupid train wreck part and Morgan Freeman dropping an F bomb not once but twice! That is Samuel L Jackson crap. Things I loved: James McEvoy dripping wet and the part where he flipped his car over a gangster guy's limo and shot him through the sunroof.

3. Swapping Lives by Jane Green
So I thought I was way beyond chick lit but I am having fun reading this book! It was a little hard to start but now I am hooked and it is very cute. Jane Green is a great story teller and really makes you like and identify with her characters. Nothing intellectual or ground-breaking here but a fun "beach read" amidst all of the education stuff I'm reading right now.

THAT WAS MY 300th POST! CRAZY!

The Best News I've Heard In Weeks

David sent me this link today and I nearly squealed with happiness:

WICKED THE MOVIE
It's really going to happen! Obviously it is still in planning stages and they say they have to wait for the show to reach its "pinnacle" but seeing as it's closing in Chicago at the end of the year, maybe the pinnacle has been reached and they can get to work on the movie version!

No word on casting yet--could they really have anyone but Idina and Kristin?

Now or Never! HSM3

The trailer for High School Musical 3 is finally released!

Click here to watch it on Disney.com

I know I'm lame but it actually looks like a lot of fun.

And I already like the "Now or Never" song featured in the trailer.

Click here to listen to pretty Zac Efron and the whole cast

Get excited for October 24!

iWant

Godddddd I want an iPhone.
But should I get one?

I've been reading everything I can find online about them including THIS and THIS.

I don't need one for any reason. But I want one! I can afford it. I have AT&T. I am a Mac geek.

Should I get an iPhone?

HATE

Sorry if you like it, but this song annoys the crap out of me:



They need to quit playing it on the radio, no matter how summer fun-y it is. Ugh.

Fang You Very Much

Thank you, Entertainment Weekly for this:


I know I haven't blogged about it yet, but I am kind of obsessed with Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series. I read all three books in under 2 weeks--just totally ate them up. Aaaaand I may or may not have fallen in love with a fictional vampire. Ha! The movie may not come out until December, but EW already has it on the cover of this week's issue.

I'm still not sold on the casting (Edward is soooo not pretty enough!) but I will totally be at the movie on opening day, pretty or not. 12.12.08-- such a long time to wait! However, coming up much sooner is the release of the fourth book in the series-- Breaking Dawn, out August 1!

Summer TV Update

There is not much on TV lately, it being summer and all. I've been surviving by watching The Sopranos on Netflix, catching up on Lost Season 4 on abc.com and catching a few summer shows.

Two of those shows are America's Got Talent and Baby Borrowers. I know, I know. I can't believe I'm watching NBC again for something other than The Office, but here I am.

America's Got Talent is actually very enjoyable when they have little kid acts and/or people who have super sad sob stories and amazing talents. The people who suck are not so enjoyable--this is why I DVR this show and fast forward through the boring stuff. I'm looking forward to the contestants being whittled down to the actually talented finalists. And David Hasselhoff is crazy!

Baby Borrowers started off AWESOME. I was totally sucked in by the premise of the show--crazy teenagers who think they're ready to have kids ASAP are put in "real life situations" (i.e. a nanny in the house and parents watching at all times via camera) where they get to care for babies, then toddlers, then preteens, then teens, then--get this--the elderly! Wow. The first episode was hysterical and unbelievable. Last week was pretty good with the conclusion of the babies but this week was not as good with toddlers. Obviously the couple with the older kid is going to do better--he's potty-trained and beyond the terrible twos. Everyone else did not deal well with bodily fluids... gross. I don't know why I like this show so much, but I do.

I must be pretty desperate for TV to enjoy shows like this! Is it fall yet?

Quickie Review: Hancock

Today I went to see Hancock on the spur of the moment with my dad. We were by the theater and didn't have anything else to do, so we wandered over to see what was playing around 1pm. I've never done that before I don't think--funny. Lucky for us, Hancock was starting right when we arrived.

Background: When I first heard Will Smith as as superhero, I was pretty much like "pass." Then I saw a whole trailer and realized it was Will Smith as a drunk, not-so-perfect superhero and I decided I might want to see it after all. It opened to not-so-perfect reviews, but I was still interested--despite those reviews it was #1 at the box office for 4th of July weekend.

And you know what? It was a fun movie! Lots of cool special effects, Will Smith was pretty good in it, I can't get enough Jason Bateman, and there was even a surprise twist that I totally didn't see coming and wasn't spoiled by any trailers! No, it wasn't deep or meaningful but it was fun and sometimes you just need to watch a fun movie, especially during the summer. ****

Books a Million

The Big Read 100

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.

2) Italicize those you intend to read.

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (One of my favorites)
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (How is it possible I never read these?)
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. The Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling (It's both because I've read two of them. Yeah, I know.)
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible (Not the whole thing but parts. Does that count?)
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (senior year of HS)
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell (also in school)
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (Summer reading for AP English)
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare (Again both because I've read some but not all.)
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (SO much fun reading this sophomore year with Mrs. Wilcox)
19. The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (on my shelf waiting to be read)
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (the movie was enough for me...)
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (AP English with Prib--not my favorite)
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (but I have read Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky, does that count?)
25. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (DON'T PANIC.)
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh (I want to read this before I see the movie!)
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (oops there it is!)
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (Read it five or more times. My favorite!)
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (Jabberwocky was enough for me)
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (It was on Oprah's Book Club list, after all)
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (Only The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen (Want to read for sure after seeing Jane Austen Book Club)
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (mmmm Peter)
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (LOVE this book and especially love his second book)
38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne (Never a huge Pooh fan)
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (Wayyyyy overhyped but interesting)
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery (Love these books)
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood (school again)
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding (We not only had to read this horrible book in school but also saw a horrible play)
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan (Sooooo good)
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen ((I'm reading it again right now in 144 installations from dailylit.com)
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (yeah another one read in high school)
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon (Such fun!)
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (better than 100 Year of Solitude for sure)
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (Lenny and that mouse! Oh my gosh)
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold (An excellent book but a little disturbing at times--I wish her follow-up would have been as good)
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones’ Diary - Helen Fielding (Love the books, love the movies, LOVE Colin Firth)
69. Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker (I love epistolary/journal novels!!!)
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath (Eh)
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray (waiting on my bookshelf)
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (Not a huge Dickens fan but I can tolerate this one)
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker (Goooooooood that book is depressing)
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry .
87. Charlotte’s Web - EB White (EB White was a childhood favorite)
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom (Eh. Frankly, I thought it was a tad trite.)
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (I HATED reading this book in high school.)
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare (not my favorite Shakespeare but better after re-reading it last summer for a class)
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (Roald Dahl is awesome--the Twits, James and the Giant Peach--awesome)
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (I love this story!)

Read count: 43--thanks mostly in part to my high school honors and AP English classes and also thanks to my book nerdiness

To be read: (only) 10-- sighhhhh... just add em to the list. I have about 100 waiting in my big cabinet.

Overwhelming Coverage

So... a few weeks ago I was all upset because China was reportedly going to screw with and potentially limit TV coverage of the summer Olympics.

Welllllll now it seems they must have changed their tune because NBC Universal apparently has HUGE plans for unprecedented coverage--some 3600 hours of it.

Good lord! 3600 hours? Is that even possible? Are there 3600 hours in the two-plus weeks of the Olympics? Let's see-- 24 hours X 17 days = 408 hours. Huh?!

Don't worry, the math isn't wrong--it appears that the coverage will be simultaneous on all of NBC Universal's television network, plus 2000+ hours of streaming live sports coverage online. Pretty cool (especially for fans of polo/archery/synchronized swimming) but maybe a little overkill, even for an Olympics nut like me. Taking a look at the schedule, though, everything I'm interested in watching is during primetime on NBC. Nothing new there.

I guess China's letting everybody in after all... or if not everybody, at least NBC. 30 Days!

Blahhhhh

This pretty much sums up how I feel today:


I spent like 2 1/2 hours trying to transfer something over from my (newer) laptop to my (older) desktop and it was ridiculously slow and frustrating. I ended up having to copy over the newer version of the applications to get anything to work at all! Good thing I am well-versed in file sharing via Ethernet cables. Otherwise I have no idea what I would have done. My 1GB flash drive would only have helped so much with those giant files.

Anyway I wanted to be way productive and instead nothing went my way. Maybe tomorrow!

Who Wants Clean House?

I just spent the last hour of my life watching the fantastic crew of Style Network's Clean House tackle the most disgusting house I've ever seen in my life. This house was the "winner" of the Messiest Home in America #2 (not the second messiest home but the second time they've held the competition).

Winner #1 a few months ago was bad. There was stuff everywhere.

But this house was vomit-inducing. It wasn't just messy, it was absolutely nasty disgusting gross dirty. Click to watch footage and see for yourself

However, even with such a giant challenge, the Clean House team prevailed as usual! The end product was like a totally different house--that is, a totally different house with at least 50 bins of stuff the family wanted to keep in the attic. After a huge yard sale that netted $2500 for charity.

50 BINS! I can't even imagine. We spent Friday cleaning out bins from our storage room and I think we now have about 10. And even those could probably be consolidated if we could have a yard sale. Good lord. Thank goodness for Clean House! I love this show!*

*Even if I do really, really miss Linda Koopersmith

Quickie Review: WALL-E

Warning: If you want to read a really good review, head over to Gretch-a-Sketch and read hers. I liked it a lot. If you're okay with mediocre, proceed...

I loved this WALL-E! How can I love a movie where there was no real dialogue (other than [adorable!] bzzzzing and bleeping) until nearly halfway through the show? How can I love little animated robots and find them totally endearing and cheer for their love story? How can I hear laughter from the kids behind me yet receive quite a number of political messages all in the same show?

It's the magic of Pixar, I tell you. This is a movie that kids and adults can both enjoy and really benefit from--it makes you think for sure! Messages sent: 1) Protect the environment--wow. 2) Don't let technology get out of control or the robots will take over! 3) Maintain real personal communication [not fake, virtual communication] and 4) Get active and get out of the recliner!

That's a lot from a little Disney show. I really enjoyed it and everyone needs to see it to understand all the very important messages it sends. *****

Happy 4th!

"To live in a country where you can take an ugly old mountain and put faces on it--faces of great Americans who did so much to make our country super great--well, that makes me proud to be an American." - Drop Dead Gorgeous

Happy Fourth of July!

Won't Be Bitten Again

According to MarketWatch.com, cheap but chic clothing supplier Steve and Barry's is facing bankruptcy.
This is terrible news! I love Sarah Jessica Parker's Bitten clothing line. They had the cutest stuff for so cheap. Especially work clothes! They may not have been the highest quality but they lasted a season at least. Sad!

However, this does explain why they haven't really had any new clothes in the Bitten line in several months.

Just a few months back there was a big story in the NY Times about the success of Steve and Barry's. Must have been the kiss of death!

Friends: The Movie?

British newsource Daily Mail is reporting that Jennifer Aniston is all on board for a Friends movie thanks to the success of the Sex and the City movie.

Friends: The Movie? For real?


Now, I am, as you may or may not know, a HUGE Friends fan. I have all 10 seasons on DVD and have the vast majority of the episodes completely memorized (if not all of them). I cried when this show ended.

But a movie? From a sit-com? Where would they go? The show took place in very few locations--it was no Sex and the City, traveling all over New York City. I guess it worked when they all went to London and actually went out in the city, but it would be very different than the show.

That said, I would totally see a Friends movie.

Things that would have to be in the movie:
- Marcel
- The chick and the duck
- Gunther and Central Perk
- Janice and "Oh My Goooood"
- Another foosball table perhaps?
- Unagi
- Emma with a real personality! How fun!
- Emma singing "baby got back"
- Paul Rudd!!! YES!
- and so much more.

Would you see a Friends movie? If so, what would you want to see in it?

Fewer Lattes in the World

Starbucks announced it will close 600 of its stores, eliminating 12,000 jobs across the country. The stores they are closing are what they label as "underperformers"--almost 70% of those stores are less than three years old.

I watched The Big Idea on MSNBC last night and they had the Starbucks CEO on who was, unsurprisingly, totally positive about this move. He was also fairly creepy about the Starbucks "experice" and used the word ubiquitous way, way too many times.

Let's hope the two Starbucks by me don't close--they are both fairly new!